1805 – Luigi Ricci, Italian composer, born in Naples (d. 1859)
1856 – Natalia Janotha, Polish pianist and composer, born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1932)
1879 – Ethel Larcombe, British tennis player (Wimbledon 1912), born in Islington, England (d. 1965)
1889 – Josef Hromádka, Czech theologist (Lenin prize 1957), born in Hodslavice, Moravia (d. 1969)
1925 – Eddie Gaedel, American baseball pinch-hitter (shortest player in MLB history 3′ 7″; St. Louis Browns), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1961)
1930 – Yannis Ioannidis, Greek composer, born in Athens, Greece
1954 – Sergei Storchak, Russian deputy finance minister
1971 – Mark Feuerstein, American actor
1985 – Alexandre Despatie, French Canadian diver
1986 – Patrick Kaleta, American hockey player